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Author : Watson Nicholson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Struggle for a Free Stage in London written by Watson Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Watson Nicholson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (653 download)
Download or read book The Struggle for a Free Stage in London written by Watson Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Watson Nicholson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
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Download or read book The Struggle for a Free Stage in London written by Watson Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521630525
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)
Download or read book The French Revolution and the London Stage, 1789-1805 written by George Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2001 book looks at how British drama and popular entertainment were affected by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.
Author : Watson Nicholson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331073871
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Struggle for a Free Stage in London (Classic Reprint) written by Watson Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Struggle for a Free Stage in London On the 22d of August, 1843, royal sanction was given to the Theatre Regulation Bill, depriving the two patent theatres - Drury Lane and Covent Garden - of the monopoly they had possessed, for nearly two centuries, of playing Shakespeare and the national drama, and extending the privilege to the minor, or independent, theatres which had sprung up and multiplied in London in spite of the "inviolable rights" of the patentees. The monopoly had been bolstered up by special legislation, revivals of vagrant acts, chicanery, and evasions of every sort, in the face of a growing public demand for an unrestricted stage for the regular drama. The subject of this volume is the story of the long struggle to free London of the theatrical monopoly, a struggle which began almost within the lifetime of the second Charles himself, and culminated in the parliamentary act of 1843. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Julia Swindells
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199600309
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 written by Julia Swindells and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides a comprehensive guide to theatre of the Georgian era across the range of dramatic forms.
Author : Watson Nicholson
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230246291
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (462 download)
Download or read book The Struggle for a Free Stage in London written by Watson Nicholson and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... THE STRUGGLE FOR A FREE STAGE IN LONDON CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THEATRICAL MONOPOLY DURING THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE PATENT THEATRES OF all the follies committed by Charles II, after his restoration to the throne of his father, "of glorious memory," none seemed more innocent than the creation of the monopoly over the acted, national drama in London and Westminster. And none, probably, was of more far-reaching consequences, either as to the difficulties involved, or the duration of the controversies arising out of the simple, irresponsible act of the King, when, on August 21, 1660, he granted his letters patent to Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Davenant, making them the sole guardians of theatrical amusements in the metropolis. For the monopoly thus created lasted until near the middle of the nineteenth century; and the train of strifes which it entailed gathered in size and momentum to the end of the long struggle waged against it. The causes alleged by King Charles for this particular act form not only a humorous commentary in themselves, -- when we recall the character of the brilliant dramas written for the delectation of the Merrie Monarch and his Court, -- but they also, inadvertently as it were, contain the fulcrum on which, later, the opponents to the monopoly operated to oust all patent rights connected with the London theatres. In the preamble to the grant to Killigrew and Davenant appears the ostensible raison d'etre of the theatrical monopoly created by Charles. "Whereas wee are given to understand," so runs the document, "that certain persons in and about our City of London, or the suburbs thereof, doe frequently assemble for the performing and acting of Playes and Enterludes for reeva
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317398920
Total Pages : 1622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Victorian Theatre written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 1622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissuing works originally published between 1971 and 1981, this compact set offers an outstanding collection of scholarship devoted to 19th Century, Victorian, theatre. A small set of performance history and criticism, this set includes a biography of Henry Irving, a look at the rise of the status of a career as actor, and a consideration of the advent of dramatic criticism. These volumes present together a lively picture of the development of the contemporary theatre.
Author : William S. Dye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book A Study of Melodrama in England from 1800 to 1840 ... written by William S. Dye and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Russell Stephens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521136556
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book The Censorship of English Drama 1824-1901 written by John Russell Stephens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1980, this was the first study to make use of the Lord Chamberlain's files on English stage censorship. Dramatic censorship is shown to be a significant index of the Victorian age and the book fills an important gap in the knowledge and understanding not only of Victorian theatre, but of Victorian manners and attitudes.
Author : Newell W. Sawyer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512806560
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham written by Newell W. Sawyer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the two centuries between the first performance of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the outbreak of the First World War, the stage provided an accurate mirror of the changing mores of English society. "High comedy," Newell W. Sawyer writes, "views man as a social animal in the midst of his fellows, with customs, conventions, and traditions of his own devising, and prods him gently or mockingly, as he stands confounded by that which he has made." The comedy of manners became, from its prototype, a dramatic category reflecting the life, thought, and manners of upper-class society, faithful to its traditions and philosophy, and as such offers an ideal medium for such a study as Professor Sawyer has here undertaken. The result is a book that is at once entertaining and serious, a study of two centuries of the British stage,
Author : Helene Koon
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813159040
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Colley Cibber written by Helene Koon and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colley Cibber changed the course of the English-speaking theater. One of the most complete theater men in the history of the stage, he fostered the change from drama as the handmaiden of literature to theater as an independent and lively art. In the process, Cibber became one of London's brightest stars, one of its most popular playwrights and, for thirty years, manager of the most important theater in England, Drury Lane. Yet above all, Cibber was an actor, and this fact governed his life and career. In his plays, he demonstrated a remarkable awareness of the audience in the playhouse, while the character of a fool, which he created for the stage, gradually became the mask he wore in private life. The man himself achieved fame and wealth and gained powerful friends who gave him the post of Poet Laureate. But the mask and his success brought equally powerful enemies who made him the target of their ridicule and succeeded in destroying his reputation. Since then the distorted image created by Pope and Fielding has amused generations of readers, but it does not explain how such a supposed fool remained a favorite with the public throughout his career, had more plays in the repertory than any other contemporary author, successfully managed a major theatrical company, or wrote the best theatrical history of his age. This biography looks at the man behind that distorting mask, his position in his own time, and his contribution to the theater.
Author : Allan Loraine Carter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Vogue of Medieval Chivalric Romance During the English Renaissance written by Allan Loraine Carter and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Thomas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191531960
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Theatre Censorship written by David Thomas and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using previously unpublished material from the National Archives, David Thomas, David Carlton, and Anne Etienne provide a new perspective on British cultural history. Statutory censorship was first introduced in Britain by Sir Robert Walpole with his Licensing Act of 1737. Previously theatre censorship was exercised under the Royal Prerogative. By giving the Lord Chamberlain statutory powers of theatre censorship, Walpole ensured that confusion over the relationship between the Royal Prerogative and statute law would prevent any serious challenge to theatre censorship in Parliament until the twentieth century. The authors place theatre censorship legislation and its attempted reform in their wider political context. Sections outlining the political history of key periods explain why theatre censorship legislation was introduced in 1737, why attempts to reform the legislation failed in 1832, 1909, and 1949, and finally succeeded in 1968. Opposition from Edward VII helped to prevent the abolition of theatre censorship in 1909. In 1968, theatre censorship was abolished despite opposition from Elizabeth II, Lord Cobbold (her Lord Chamberlain) and Harold Wilson (her Prime Minister). There was strong support for theatre censorship on the part of commercial theatre managers who saw censorship as offering protection from vexatious prosecution. A policy of inertia and deliberate obfuscation on the part of Home Office officials helped to prevent the abolition of theatre censorship legislation until 1968. It was only when playwrights, directors, critics, audiences, and politicians (notably Roy Jenkins) applied combined pressure that theatre censorship was finally abolished. The volume concludes by exploring whether new forms of covert censorship have replaced the statutory theatre censorship abolished with the 1968 Theatres Act.
Author : Hugh Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317268733
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Leisure in the Industrial Revolution written by Hugh Cunningham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1980. This book is a study of what different classes of society understood by leisure and how they enjoyed it. It argues that many of the assumptions which have underlain the history of leisure are misleading, and in particular the notions that there was a vacuum in popular leisure in the early Industrial Revolution; that with industrialisation there was sharp discontinuity with the past; that cultural forms diffuse themselves only down the social scale, and that leisure helped ease class distinctions. An alternative interpretation is suggested in which popular culture can be seen as an active agent as well as a victim. This title will be of interest to students of history.
Author : Colin Chambers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134216890
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Black and Asian Theatre In Britain written by Colin Chambers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together to provide a detailed background to the work of African, Asian, and Caribbean diasporic companies and practitioners. Colin Chambers examines early forms of blackface and other representations in the sixteenth century, through to the emergence of black and Asian actors, companies, and theatre groups in their own right. Thorough analysis uncovers how they led to a flourishing of black and Asian voices in theatre at the turn of the twenty-first century. Figures and companies studied include: Ira Aldridge Henry Francis Downing Paul Robeson Errol John Mustapha Matura Dark and Light Theatre The Keskidee Centre Indian Art and Dramatic Society Temba Edric and Pearl Connor Tara Arts Yvonne Brewster Tamasha Talawa. Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an enlightening and immensely readable resource and represents a major new study of theatre history and British history as a whole. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : Jacqueline S. Bratton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521794633
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (946 download)
Download or read book New Readings in Theatre History written by Jacqueline S. Bratton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
